Do you all still remember Zagar? Zach worked hard to help Zagar get rid of the perception that he was a copy of Zach and let Zagar live out his own consciousness. Do you remember the Mirror Man who didn't become the angel Crowley? It was Zach who was trying his best to make the Mirror Man not regard himself as someone else's shadow and live for himself.
I think from these two things, everyone should be able to understand the truth about Zach—that he cares deeply about self-awareness. As a Toledo who is obsessed with playing various human identities in human society, self-awareness may really be so important and needs to be placed at the highest priority of personality. Otherwise, four centuries of role-playing might have long ago robbed Zachary Toredo of himself.
We can all feel an inexplicable atmosphere during the several heart-to-heart conversations between Zach and his own image. This all comes from Zach not knowing how to define his image self-awareness—
If you regard your own image as Zagar or Mirror Man, hey, would Zach want to wave his hand and say "Go and live your own life~" to the image that he finally returned to?
Zach can't. Image is an ability. It is the power that Zach obtains from the Faith of the Holy Lord on his own. Encourage this power to let yourself go? Zack isn't that stupid.
it's good now. Zach doesn’t have to be embarrassed about this kind of thing anymore, no one is worthy of being someone’s pointer. Haha, Zach is not worthy of encouraging the self-awareness of the image. Zach and the image are both extensions of a human being that has been wiped out, and they are both beings that have been released. No one is nobler than anyone else.
Sissi watched all the changes in Zach's expression. In the early stage, she had a proud look of "I knew you would be stupid." She took a good look at Zach's self-confusion. But later on, it became a dodge. The truth that Sissi wants to tell, huh, is not even half of it yet.
Sissi moved her eyes away and stared at the Grand Master's nameplate on the desk: "An abandoned paradise (future), a present world that has always existed in time, is the reward of the Holy Lord for the two to meet. And together. Those golden ones in the mirror incident, that's the only connection between you."
Zach took a deep breath in an anthropomorphic manner, which has the same effect as a human's deep breath - fresh air can make humans think clearly, but for vampires, the swelling of the lungs will be painful and stimulate the vampire's thinking. He glanced at Sissi and found that the other party was avoiding his gaze. He also moved his gaze and looked at his 'Zachary Grande' name tag with Sissi. "This is the ultimate reward given to vampires by the Holy Lord. Is the essence of imaging ability correct? It re-establishes a path between two futures where a subject is split, relying on the physical rules of this world - imaging."
Sissi didn't nod or deny, and continued, "The future that has been left behind the timeline is not the future, but a history that has no chance of happening." Just like an abandoned gas station next to the highway, incoming cars will not If you stay, no car will drive out from here to continue the journey on the highway. "Have you never thought about it yourself? Hum, it is the Holy Lord's work to twist the meaning of the outside world and forcibly connect it to the timeline of this world. Ability." Isn't this how heaven and hell come about? "To present this reward, there must be a node in the present world for the future from the past to connect. The imaging rules of this world are this node." Sissi's The voice suddenly became quieter, because, "The alien mirror man, the soul of this world, and his other self in the mirror, use this rule..."
The vampires created by the Holy Lord's faith and the alien souls of this world are put in the same sentence. Once the association between vampires and soul aliens was developed... did you think of it—
Zach's eyes instantly shifted to Sissi, "What did you say? Mirror Man?" Zach stared at Sissi, "Are you talking about this imaging ability and Mirror Man..." Zach's mouth opened mid-sentence. , neither closing nor moving.
Yes, what else is there to say. What humans drop in front of the mirror is picked up by the mirror man and becomes another self.
Isn't this the same rule for vampires and vampire images? What was dropped, what was picked up. A span of four centuries.
The Faith of the Holy Lord actually uses the alien souls restrained by vampires to find inspiration and provide favors to vampires...
Zach stood up and began to circle around the small space around his office chair. As I just said, once the association between vampires and soul aliens unfolds, it will be... out of control—
"What else!" Zach didn't want to control his emotions. No matter what, he was what he was. At this time, the nature of vampires was questioned by Zach himself. Why did he care about his emotions? "Ri Xing? The ability given to vampires by the Holy Lord is still Are there any imitations of soul aliens?!"
Zach's statement is correct - from the birth of the first vampire to the thirteen clans, we all know that there was a period in which the real history was wiped out, leaving only a book of "God's Punishment" used for preaching. "Cain". Vampires, no one knows how vampires changed from the original Cain to what they are now.
The history of vampires in the Thirteen Clans has experienced the gift of day walking ability, but what about before that? How are the abilities of the vampire clan differentiated? Information in the blood (Lesembra), red eyes that distort memory (Toledo), manipulation of light and shadow (Refro's light control, Nofil's shadow control), the body that heals foreign objects (Zimich) )…
Even Eli Toledo, who ignored bloodline suppression.
Vampires, from being the only ones in the past, to now, tsk, a hundred flowers are blooming. What did the Holy Lord do in between? How many alien abilities of souls in this world have been modified and manipulated by the Holy Lord, and put into vampire bodies.
Sissi also took a deep breath and looked directly into Zack's eyes. She finally said, "The Holy Lord is the god of souls. Why do you ask that? Isn't the answer obvious? Everything about vampires is an imitation of alien souls."
Everything
Including... creation
Zach looked at Sissi, "What the hell is a vampire!"
Sissi's lips were twitching, and after frequent and violent twitching, she sent it back, "The shadow person who failed to imitate."
finally. Our Zach sees the truth about himself.
"Please leave." Zach was about to see off the guests.
You can't expect a person to walk all his life without looking at whether he has crushed ants under his feet, and then when the number of ants he has crushed in his life has reached an order of magnitude, tell him that you are also an ant, just a mutated one. He has forgotten his origins and corrupted his roots since birth. At this time, is it too much to ask this person to calm down
"Are you angry?" Sissi didn't have any consciousness at all. "Are you angry? The alien soul that you have suppressed since birth turned out to be the origin of everything special about you. This fact made you collapse." This is no longer adding fuel to the fire. It's oily, it's cement poured over oil, and the nausea that was originally sticky and greasy has now turned into suffocation.
"I told you to leave..." Zach's eyes were already red.
"Zach." Louise stood at the door of the office.
Zach walked to the corner of the office. The only rational thing now is a man's upbringing in front of his woman. Louise fell in love with a gentleman.
Louise looked at Zach's back for a while, "Sissi."
Sissi continued to sit motionless for a while, then looked sideways at Louise, "I haven't finished speaking yet."
"Sissi, stop talking." It's not Louise anymore, it's Alice.
No one thought that Grandery's creatures were sleeping peacefully while Zach and Sissy were talking.
Sissi still said the same thing, "I haven't finished speaking yet."
"Tsk, why don't you wink at all?" It was Maya, whose education was a little worse than Alice's, so she usually said this kind of words, with a mocking tone that was consistent with her belief, "If something goes wrong, we won't save you. You~"
Alice pulled Maya and gave an accusing look.
"What! I'm not wrong!" Maya was not prepared to give in. "We black witches have given up on Papa Midnight a long time ago! If you look at wizards and then werewolves, huh, the relationship between creation and the creator should be like this! I really I don’t know why she, the spokesperson of the Holy Lord, dares to be arrogant in front of a vampire!"
This... doesn't seem to be a problem. Creation and Creator, huh. There is still something in Papa Midnight that is ahead of the Holy Lord’s faith.
Alice pursed her lips and glanced at Louise, "Sissi, come here and tell us to let Louise and Zach stay for a while."
"Who am I to tell you two about the Holy Lord's faith?" Sissi's childishness showed up again.
"No one in Grandry will help you." Alice actually stood up and said, "Even now, Maya and I can still listen to what you have to say for the sake of us being classmates and friends. If you wait a little while, we won’t.”
Sissi... pulled out a few hairs from her pink bunny, stood up, crossed paths with Louise, and followed Alice and Maya to the girl's bedroom.
Naturally, Louise closed the door and walked towards Zach, "Are you okay?"
"Not good." Zach was also direct, "She actually said I was a shadow person!"
Don't complain about Zach, it's difficult to describe his inner struggle at this time - four centuries of self-understanding were destroyed at once, can you try? Zach can still grasp a clue to reflect his true emotions at this time, which is already a sign of high emotional intelligence.
Louise didn't know how to comfort Zach. To be very realistic, Louise does not have a deep understanding of her vampire identity - Louise is only one year old, would you discuss the nature of human beings with a one-year-old baby
So Louise could speak very little, "We all are."
Zach knew that Louise was forcing himself to comfort him now. For this reason, Zach had to control himself. Fortunately, Louise had comfort products, wine bottles and cups in her hands.
After filling it up, Zach swung his wine glass as elegantly as possible and looked in the direction of the office door. The conversation in the girl's bedroom had already begun. Louise pulled Zach and pressed him on the office chair, while she sat in Zach's arms, "I'll listen with you."
Then let’s listen together.
"Stop talking about what vampires are." Alice gave this conversation between the two highest representatives of the gods a girlish and willful tone. "If you don't like what you say, we won't listen either." Happy. Let's turn over this article. You said that the key to the gate of heaven is still on Gangluo. 'Jian' wanted to take it away, but Frank stopped him. Why didn't you also take the key from Gangluo?"
Alice not only controlled the topic of the conversation, she accelerated it.
Sissi: "Why do you think as soon as the Secret Alliance left and the devil appeared in the world, I fled all the way from the west to the east?" asked rhetorically.
Maya did not coddle Sissi, "Answer the question."
"The key to Heaven's Gate is not safe with me." Sissi replied, "The Sabbat is always looking for the key! I must put the key on something I feel safe with!"
"Why?"
"What why? Is the Sabbat looking for the key to the Gate of Heaven or am I choosing the person to keep the key?" Sissi was dumbfounded again. The Sabbat's search for the key to Heaven's Gate needs explanation? Who doesn’t know, the Sabbat’s persistence in rewarding the Holy Lord’s faith!
Zach now wanted to tell Lord Root directly what the reward was. Huh, let him have a taste of the cognitive impact he received at this time. Zach can confirm that after four centuries of life, it is already so difficult for him to calm down his emotions. Root will go crazy——
No? The creatures at the bottom of the contempt chain of the Sabbat society, those alien souls whose existence has no meaning, are your father, Lute Lesembra!
"You can't protect the biggest secret of the Holy Lord's faith?" Maya said, "How can you be a saint?"
"I'm sorry, at least the biggest secret in the Holy Lord's faith is kept by my saint. What did you keep for Papa Midnight??" Tsk, this is about to turn into a quarrel between girls.
"The Banshee is keeping Papa's life at midnight." Alice actually answered this question seriously. In this answer, there should be a blind eye that was led by Kepler. "Although we don't want to, the Banshee continues to be here." Born in the lineage of wizards, we have continued the life of Papa Midnight." The point Alice wants to express is, "The relationship between witchcraft and belief in God and creation has long ago collapsed, but Papa Midnight still found a way to let We are interdependent. God is God, a different class of existence from us. Isn’t there something similar in your Holy Lord faith? You kept that key, but the Holy Lord didn’t give you any means to prevent accidents?”
"The means is vampires!" Sissi was a little irritated. "Putting the key to the heaven that ignores the rules of the world and arbitrarily connects to heaven on vampires who can never enter heaven is the means of the Holy Lord's faith! Do you understand what I say?" Actually mocking.
I can’t understand it any more, what a straightforward truth.
"Well, the key placed on Gangluo is in danger now, can't you take it back first? After you solve the Republic's Divine Mirror, then... "
"Take it back? There are only two places in my surname that can put keys." The surnames from her parents - two surnames that hold the Holy Lord's faith to reward vampires converged on Sissi. As we said before, these two Among the rewards attached to each surname, one was given to Toledo and the other to Gangro.
Sissi was really anxious. Hey, it can be imagined that in front of Zach just now, this girl was holding on forcefully. As soon as she was in front of her peers, she couldn't hold it in anymore. "I have already taken back the key to Toledo's surname. I will give it to you again." How can I let the keys go out again after taking them back from Gangluo?! Do you think I have a lot of surnames?!"
"Wait a minute, you mean the key can only be given out with the surname?" Maya is not only able to criticize Sissi, but also seizes the key moment.
But, there is no need to ask this question. I have just revealed a little bit, from Cain to the current differentiated vampire clans with their own characteristics. Those vampire surnames that are bound to bloodline distinctions.
"What does a vampire have that isn't given by his surname? Apart from his surname, does the vampire's skin have anything to do with the faith of the Holy Lord?!" (To be continued)